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Steve Terry wrote:
"Dave Farrance" wrote in
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"Trev" trevbowdenAT.dsl.pipex.COM wrote:

Dave Farrance wrote:
Anybody know if there's a cheap DVD recorder capable of recording
at least eight hours? It's for a video capture application where
quality isn't an issue, so a cheap analogue-only dvd recorder from
a supermarket would be fine.

DVD and analogue dont compute.
super long play ie Mpeg 1 Is available on all the ones I have seen

Analogue as in only an analogue tuner, I meant. How long is super
long play?
Dave Farrance

You can only reburn a DVDrw at most a hundred times,
i've had some fail after only about a dozen times.

Where on earth did you hear that? Maybe if they are manufactured by some
"Arfur Daley" type character but "real" discs can be re-written about
1,000 times:
http://www.osta.org/technology/dvdqa/dvdqa11.htm
I've used Traxdata 4X DVD+RW in my DVD recorder and re-written the same 5
discs over 150 times now.

Personal experience, I use mostly Philips +RW, sometimes Maxell.
I wouldn't count on any of them rewriting more than 50 times,
sometimes they easily will, sometimes they fail before that.

With DVDs you never know, not a good idea when you need reliability
like surveillance recording.

Currently HD's are the way to go, in a few years big Flash memory will take
over

Steve Terry